Author
Jessica Wise
Dr. Jessica Wise is an educator and virtual consultant with the Instructional Coaching Group, where she supports schools and districts in implementing effective instructional coaching practices. Over her career, she has held multiple K–12 roles, including classroom teacher, school-based instructional coach, intervention/gifted teacher, district literacy specialist, and leadership and staff development instructional coach.
Wise is a co-author of The IC Toolkit (Corwin, 2024/2025), written with Jim Knight, Michelle Harris, and Amy Musante, a resource that guides instructional coaches through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning using concrete tools such as activities, checklists, case studies, and videos. In this work, she helped curate and organize a wide range of coaching resources and articles to align with Jim Knight’s research-based Seven Success Factors for instructional coaching.
